Hakuba Now: Friday 22nd April 2016
- Apr 22, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 321cm
Posted on Friday 22nd April 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from here in Hakuba.
It was a decent morning but rain started falling early in the afternoon yesterday, as expected.
And as can only be expected, the rain hasn't done the snow conditions -- and indeed the amount of snow still remaining -- any favours unfortunately.
There's lots of cloud around this morning with fog as well. And while we were hoping for things to be dry, light rain is still with us early morning unfortunately. Hopefully things will dry up fairly quickly though.
Lifts either seem to be shrouded in low visibility conditions and cloud.
The forecast actually says that we may well be seeing some sun during the day today, and similarly tomorrow.
Thanks to my friend up in Niseko for providing an explanation of Golden Week in his Niseko Now reports on SnowJapan:
'Golden Week' is fast approaching.
So what exactly is Golden Week? For those of you who don't know, Golden Week is a number of national holidays that happen close to each other giving lots of people a nice holiday in late April and early May. Most tourist spots get very busy as a result!
Depending on what days they fall, some years it is a considerably long period. This year, the actual national holidays are 'Showa Day' on Friday 29th April, 'Constitution Day' on Tuesday 3rd May, 'Greenery Day' on Wednesday 4th May and 'Children's Day' on Thursday May 5th. This means that this year Golden Week looks like this:
* Friday 29th April - Sunday 1st May (3 day long weekend)
* Tuesday 3rd May - Thursday 5th May (3 day holiday mid-week)
* Saturday 7th May - Sunday 8th May (normal weekend)
No doubt some folk will be taking Monday 2nd May and Friday 6th May as a holiday as well giving them a 10 day break. Nice.
Hakuba 47:
The following courses are now closed: Upper part of Route 1, Route 3, Route 4 and Route 6.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 55cm
Base: 25cm
Hakuba Goryu:
The top area of Goryu - Panorama, Grand Prix and Super courses - remain open.
The lower main Toomi and Iimori areas are now closed.
Get the Gondola back down to base.
Official snow depth
Alps: 125cm
Toomi: -cm
Iimori: -cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
All lower areas of the resort are now closed.
The upper Riesen Grat Course, Usagidaira and Kurobishi areas remain open; Skyline and Panorama are now just part open.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 80cm
Nakiyama: -cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
The top Tsuga-no-mori and Upper Han-no-ki areas remain open.
All other courses are now closed.
The top Tsugaike Ropeway is open for spring season (note: extra charge required).
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 100cm
Maruyama: -cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: -cm
Other resorts are now closed for the season.
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 22nd April 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 321cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 43 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 38cm (20th January) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 138cm reported on 17 days February 2016 snowfall 82cm reported on 11 days March 2016 snowfall 35cm reported on 5 days April 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Hakuba. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.